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0x Salon Participant Wiki (2020/21)
Hello colleague. You’re probably at this page because of an upcoming 0x Salon which you might participate in. Please treat this WIP-wiki as a shared resource which we’ll keep updating. No need to read it all at once! :)
To register interest in participating in a salon discussion, get in touch: [email protected]. Participant selections are made based on background and expertise as well as contributions to prior discussions and related projects. For more on how 0x Salon events and invitations are arranged, this page has details. You might also like to join our Telegram group for occasional updates and chat.
What happens at a 0x Salon event?
The salon event mainly revolves around a two-to-three-hour long discussion. Our goal with these online salons is to focus on peer discourse. Discussions are meant to be participatory and are not publicly broadcast.
The salon brings together approximately 20 participants with a varying backgrounds to collectively expose new questions and develop different ways of approaching the discussion topic. Each salon discussion focuses on a particular topic. Find our more about past and future salon topics here.
Collectively the salon hivemind has broad knowledge of the discussion topic and its position relative to a variety of related fields. Some of us may have a long history of engaging with the specific topic, and others are newer to the discussion but have expertise in a field that gives them a unique perspective on the topic.
As a community of artists, theorists, researchers, practitioners, and other knowledge workers, the salons bring together people who share a common interest in the discussion topic. We hope the discussions allow participants to support one another by sharing their research with colleagues in other disciplines, and in the process develop further insight.
More information: About the 0x Salon
Salon Format
The event consists of an IRL meetup or Zoom video call with a group of transdisciplinary colleagues. Participants may share their screens or suggest media to project on the Zoom screen-share for the group to discuss. Occasionally we invite participants to prepare mini-presentations on their work, but most of the conversation is spontaneous. During the salon, discourse flows naturally. Moderation is light.
Salon conversations will not be broadcast in public.
Important: Discourse Privacy, Chatham House Rule and Recordings
0x Salon aims to foster a relaxed environment where participants feel comfortable speaking freely, and privacy is an important part of maintaining that environment. We follow the Chatham House Rule:
When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
For Chatham House to function effectively, the hosts should know who will participate in the conversation in advance.* We ask you to respect this policy when participating in the conversation and please do not bring additional guests into the salon without prior approval.
Please do not make audio or video recordings of this event. 0x Salon janitors will make a private recording for archival purposes, and we take our responsibilities seriously in ensuring that these recordings do not leak. Writings based on the conversation will published in the 0x Salon web journal, but the video/audio recordings themselves will never be shared publicly.
*There are of course circumstances where remaining anon/pseudoanon is important and can be accommodated. Please email us ([email protected]) to discuss.
Documentation + Outputs
Before the Salon
Written Outputs
We sometimes write or use a short article or provocation to ground the salon or act as an impetus, then use discussions to digest & develop the idea, with collaborative writeups to follow.
Publicity
The online salons aren’t secret per se, so we can publicise beforehand. Perhaps does not make sense to hype too much if a general audience can’t attend though.
During/after the Salon
No audiovisual outputs
Recording / archiving: it is up to us and the other participants to collectively agree to publish an audiovisual output, otherwise we make a private recording for our archive and article writing purposes. We have almost never published the recordings, except for some of the first few small-group virtual salon attempts - which we have now ‘unpublished’ for consistency.
Written Outputs
We have been writing up reports and/or short posts to convey and develop salon conversations for previous topics, and plan to do so upcoming salons too where time and resources allow. This is a collaborative process which we open to the salon community, with most of the editorial work and research being done by Daniel and Wassim.
Examples of 0x Salon outputs:
0x002 Epistemic Trespassing Salon Report
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/it4vigwo0x003 Algorithmic Realism vignettes
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/0x003-algorithmic-realism-salon-reports0x004 The Forest from the Trees vignettes
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/0x004-the-forest-from-the-trees-salon-reportsCPRU Poetics
https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/cpruCartomancy Cartel Magic Gallery
https://www.are.na/0x-salon/magic-gallery
